Violent conflicts and state capacity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper investigates the impacts of conflicts on state-capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region that has recorded disproportionate number armed and high presence Fragile States Index rankings. Individually, both are known to have important implications for economic development, which underscore their relevance developing countries. Our aim here is analyze relationship between them this, we panel 49 SSA countries spanning 2000–2015. results suggest effect depends variable used proxy important: diminish when tax revenue as proxy, but positive proxied by military expenditure. Other proxies consider include regulatory quality, rule law, government effectiveness.